no one has any knowledge of 329 aside from being near our glory!

2/18/2009 4:16:50 PM

I can't believe how angry I was just before I left last night. I'm seriously considering not giving a fuck about this stupid team any more and mailing my remaining tickets (and my PLAYOFF tickets from last year) to Jim Rutherford.

On the upside, I won my game 6-2.

2/18/2009 4:37:44 PM

Mail them to Peter Karmanos IMO

2/18/2009 4:40:49 PM

I've gone back and forth.

JR's team is not built for this era of hockey, but PK's thrift has a big hand in the style not changing with the times.

2/18/2009 4:45:51 PM

I wish I could have heard your rant last night.

2/18/2009 6:47:08 PM

I think it was when Corvo went down, I started with something like:

"I'm so glad that we have a group of glass defensemen, so that when one gets hurt, we play the guy we've scratched and waived all season long and put him on the first power play unit. And I'm really glad that all of our players are tiny, because hitting is for suckers! I'm really REALLY glad that we're paying Eric Staal as much as the Sharks pay Joe Thornton, because it's totally worth it!"

etc.

better than that, of course, because my hockey nerd rage was in full effect

2/18/2009 7:24:34 PM

lovely! I didn't even think about it last night, but after reading the LGC boards, why in the FUCK was Karmanos not in attendance last night!?!

2/18/2009 7:57:42 PM

Because he'd get booed out of the building?

2/18/2009 7:59:01 PM

because he's a piece of shit owner

he should sell the team to goodnight

2/18/2009 7:59:01 PM

I know he's an asshole, most fans know he's an asshole. but shouldn't you at least be in the fucking building to acknowledge a man who's having his jersey retired?

2/18/2009 8:14:43 PM

Quote :

"There was one notable difference in the two ceremonies — team owner Peter Karmanos was not in attendance Tuesday night. His son, team executive Jason Karmanos, stood in for him. "He was tied up with a previous commitment," president and general manager Jim Rutherford said today. "He was gone for a week — out of his office. He tried to get here but couldn't." "

previous commitment? they announced this a longggggg time ago

2/18/2009 9:39:39 PM

oh, actually he was out of town for the BDIU awards.

2/18/2009 9:40:22 PM

It's hard for me to ever be mad at Karmanos about ANYTHING because the man was insane enough to bring NHL hockey to me in Raleigh, NC. And we did win Stanley.

BUT.

If I somehow manage to put all of that out of my head for the briefest of moments...

What a terrible owner.

2/18/2009 10:52:07 PM

i loathe Karmanos.

and will gladly accept tickets for those of you who don't want yours

2/18/2009 10:57:27 PM

I hear Cherokee has some tickets he isn't using

2/18/2009 11:44:15 PM

How often is Peter Karmanos actually in Raleigh/at a game?

2/19/2009 7:44:13 AM

BECKET, Mass. (AP) — Three people were seriously injured when a bus carrying the AHL’s Albany River Rats rolled on its side on Interstate 90 in western Massachusetts early Thursday, state police said.

The bus carrying the hockey team home from a game in Lowell struck a guard rail and rolled on its side at about 3:35 a.m., Sgt. David Mahan said. Three people were taken to the hospital with what he called “serious” injuries. Names were not released.

Twenty-nine others on the bus were taken to the hospital as a precaution.

Mahan said slippery roads caused by overnight snow may have been a factor in the crash. Both lanes of the highway were closed following the accident.

The River Rats lost 3-2 in a shootout to the Lowell Devils on Wednesday night.

2/19/2009 8:49:36 AM

Slightly more details:

Quote :

"BECKET, Mass. - Three players and employees of the Albany River Rats were seriously injured this morning after their team bus slid in snow and rolled on the Massachusetts Turnpike just before 3:30 a.m., Massachusetts State Police said. The injured people are a mix of players and team employees, River Rats coach Jeff Daniels said, but declined to identify any of them until families can be contacted. Police describe the injures as serious, but Daniels said they did not appear to be life threatening. "We were very fortunate and lucky," Daniels said. Daniels said the bus rolled after hitting bad weather on a return trip from Lowell. It struck a guardrail, coming to rest on its side and partially on the highway. The discovery of the disabled bus prompted other motorists to stop their vehicles on the highway and then try to slow approaching traffic, Daniels said. Some seriously injured suffered lacerations during the accident. Everybody on the bus was taken to Berkshire Medical Center. Four people were admitted for treatment and all aboard were being checked out by medical staff as a precaution. "They've been great looking after us," Daniels said. The bus was heading back to Albany after playing in Lowell, Mass. Wednesday night. It overturned just east of Lee. The coach and the rest of the team are still at the hospital this morning."

Quote :

"Three players were seriously injured in the crash, head coach-GM Jeff Daniels said. At this hour, the team is still at the Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass. "It was extremely scary," Daniels said. "We're very fortunate to escape the way we did, injury-wise. Some guys are banged up pretty good and they're going to miss an extended period of time, but it's nothing career-threatening." Daniels wanted to wait until players and staff had a chance to speak with family before releasing the names of those seriously hurt."

2/19/2009 9:09:52 AM

Conboy up tonight(was not involved in the crash as he was suspended)

4 players are being treated for injuries, one staff member re: bus crash

2/19/2009 10:57:29 AM

Quote :

"The five have been identified as players Nicholas Blanchard, Casey Borer, Joe Jensen, Jonathan Paiement and radio broadcaster John Hennessy."

Quote :

"11 a.m. UPDATE — "The injuries vary," Hurricanes general manager Jim Rutherford said. "There are cuts, bruises, shoulders, concussions, a fractured neck."

2/19/2009 11:57:46 AM

cant wait to go tomorrow night we will get a win

2/19/2009 12:07:21 PM

A win?

HAH!

I have tickets, so I guess I'm going. *sigh*

2/19/2009 12:24:43 PM

goddamn, I hope the rats are going to be okay

2/19/2009 1:12:27 PM

That's awful about the River Rats. I hope they all have a speedy recovery, especially the one with the fractured neck.

2/19/2009 1:20:48 PM

COOL BARS tonight all the way in Wake Forest. Anyone going?

2/19/2009 1:55:59 PM

hell 2 da naw

2/19/2009 2:05:37 PM

I'm not going to Wake Forest to see Ron the Ref or the Storm Squad. If it was Cary, hell yeah, otherwise no.

2/19/2009 2:18:03 PM

im not a hockey statustion but is their record worse with maurice(sp) back

2/19/2009 2:24:54 PM

I dont know, but their record on Cool Bars nights is 1-4-1, with one being a 6-5 OTL to Philly after being up 5-1 in the 3rd.

[Edited on February 19, 2009 at 2:44 PM. Reason : durrr, 0-4-1 when I am in attendance]

2/19/2009 2:32:58 PM

Laviolette: 12-11-2, 26 points (1.04 pt/game)
Maurice: 16-14-3, 35 points (1.06 pt/game)

Pretty much dead even.

2/19/2009 2:33:52 PM

Quote :

"I'm not going to Wake Forest to see Ron the Ref or the Storm Squad. If it was Cary, hell yeah, otherwise no."

haha, pretty random, but one of my favorite moments of glen wesley night was when he walked off the ice for the last time, ron the ref was going for the handshake, and you could tell glen didn't really want to, but he did anyway

god i hate ron the ref

2/19/2009 2:42:11 PM

can i expect to see a hat trick friday night against tampa bay

2/19/2009 2:47:35 PM

One of my stronger Ron the Ref memories from my days working the RBC suites was after a basketball game.

For NCSU bball games he wore a red coat and was an usher or some thing. After the games, he would raid the suites for food that the suiteholders had left behind. Cold chicken tenders, tuna salad that had been left on a counter for 3+ hours, it didnt matter to Ron. And not only did he eat the food, he somehow did it while wearing an air of superiority over the rest of the employees that watched his feast. He all but said, 'I'm Ron the Ref, I'll do whatever the hell I want'.

2/19/2009 2:49:55 PM

which is one of the many reasons i can't stand him, because i figured he would be the type to do that exact kind of thing

i remember when i first realized he was an usher for basketball games

i couldn't stop laughing when i handed him my ticket

2/19/2009 2:52:50 PM

He's definitely a douche bag.

2/19/2009 2:53:40 PM

Motherfucker bungled an icing call in one of my club games and almost cost me a shutout.

2/19/2009 3:26:56 PM

anyone happen to know the name/where to find that song they play when the canes come out at the 1st intermission now. seems to be some kind of personal hurricanes song maybe

2/19/2009 3:31:09 PM

the really terrible one that sounds like nickelback?

2/19/2009 3:35:07 PM

aha, maybe? i don't know. as bad as it might be it got stuck in my head. want

2/19/2009 3:47:55 PM

ron the ref is in charge of all officials in our region for usa hockey

2/19/2009 4:08:53 PM

what a douchebag

2/19/2009 4:10:05 PM

^^ i thought urbaniak was in charge

2/19/2009 4:11:15 PM

maybe things have changed, but I remember a while ago when a kid I coached tomahawked (sp?) another player, I had to meet with ron to appeal his suspension .

2/19/2009 4:15:09 PM

So is there no number 50?

2/19/2009 5:24:20 PM

2/19/2009 5:39:54 PM

current #50 is daniel manzato, can't find a pic

2/19/2009 6:00:55 PM

when i saw ron the ref giving his tribute to glen wesley on the jumbotron, i wondered if he asked to give a tribute

it's a bunch of players and ex-players. . . and then ron the ref, sidekick to stormy the hand-jiving icepig

2/19/2009 6:30:51 PM

W00T Urbaniak refs NCSU hockey games

2/19/2009 6:44:13 PM

At cool bars with steviewonder. just overheard the douche bag mention in speaking with a bar patron who i assume is his friend that he is upset that they announce stormy and the storm squad will be at these events yet fail to mention him too. steviewonder told him its because he is a douchebag and he was visably shaken.

2/19/2009 6:53:28 PM

ahahahaha

2/19/2009 6:58:00 PM